MANY PORTUGUESE DEPART FOR BRAZIL

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 (AP)—Thousands of Portuguese refugees, fleeing political and economic change at home, are streaming into Brazil and crowding Into relatives' homes or hotels.

Although there have been no demonstrations, public clamor is mounting for Brazil to create special centers and stop “ignoring the problem.”

Statistics on Portuguese immigration since the Lisbon dictatorship was ousted by an armed forces coup in April, 1974, are difficult to obtain. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry reports only a 20 per cent increase in the yearly official immigration from Portugal of 2,000.

Portugese sources challenge the figures. Members of the numerous Portuguese clubs and associations say a conservative estimate on the new arrivals in the last year would be 40,000, many of whom did not register.

Former Premier Marcello Caetano is teaching comparative law to 70 graduate students at Rio's Gama Filho University, in exchange for rental of an apartment, a chauffered car and $2,000 monthly.

Caetano Publishes Book

Despite a ban on political activity, the Brazilian Government allowed Mr. Caetano to publish a book called “Depoimento”—Portuguese for deposition or testimony—in which the ex‐premier justified his conduct and warned of the growing danger of Communism in Portugal.

Former President António de Spínola, who helped overthrow Mr. Caetano in 1974 but fled the country after another attempted coup last March, is writing his own memoirs in another Copacabana hotel.

At least seven other former Portuguese ministers live in Brazil. They include Rui Patricio, former minister of foreign affairs, currently working as a lawyer with a Volkswagen‐related company in São Paulo; Baltazar Rebelo de Souza and Adriano Moreira, former overseas territories ministers: Veiga Macedo and Galvao Telles, exministers of education: Joan Dias Rosas, former finance minister.

Antonio Champalimaud, who owned cement and steel works in Portugal, is expanding his, cement business in the state of Minas Gerais. Bankers Pinto Magalhaes, Queiroz Pereira and Home de Melo are shopping around for investments.

Middle‐echelon employes are also coming, especially from the soon‐to‐be independent Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique. The column of job‐seekers in Rio's weekly O Mundo Portugues ranges this week from a surgeon to a taxi driver.

Many Portuguese bring their savings to invest. A spokesman for Gomes de Almeida Fernandes, one of Brazil's largest real estate construction companies, says: “A depressed market has been revitalized thanks to the Portuguese. They are buying, cash down, at 60 or 90 days maximum both in Rio and Sao Paulo. Many apartments which were on the market for a long time are now being snapped up.”

The Foreign Ministry says residence requirements are stiff, depending on whether the foreigner has a profession that is considered necessary by the Ministry of Labor, but many have found a way to get papers through friends, payoffs and other means.

Linguistic, cultural and historical ties between Brazil and Lisbon date back to 1500, when the Portuguese discovered Brazil and developed it as a colony. A special treaty signed in 1970 allows Portuguese and Brazilians to vote and run for minor offices in each other's country.

However, the Foreign Ministry has now adopted a different attitude toward the treaty signed at the height of the Caetano government.

“It was a very pretty, very poetic agreement, but it never was an operative agreement,” said a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Brasilia.

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